never understood why Barnsley based Wednesday fans

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  1. bar

    barnsleyone Well-Known Member

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    Don't support their local club. If not why Don't they more to Sheffield if they love it so much
     
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    North Yorks Red Well-Known Member

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    maybe they or their fathers just came from there to start with?
     
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    Did you hear the idiot on radio sheff after game? "Just on my way back to Barnsley and I've not been as happy since Thatcher shut pits!" Tw@
     
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    I was brought up in Hull and was born five miles away from the dump. I couldn't think of anything worse than supporting those *******s.
     
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    Bet they come to oakwell and sing "......I wanna go home" cringe. Another thing that's wrong with modern day football people not supporting their local teams. Having said that my local team is leeds I could be at Elland road in ten mins I only come oakwell as my dad is from Barnsley and started taking me in the premiership years and carried it on. I jumped on the band wagon and haven't got off can't change now though. If I was born in a town and wasnt influenced by parents when young I'd like to think I'd follow my local team.
     
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    Somebody likes the dole
     
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    I'm sure there are a lot of good and genuine reasons why some fans don't support their local club - who their Dad supported would be high up the list but there are a lot of glory supporters who just jump on a bandwagon hence the number of Man U / Chelsea / Liverpool fans there are all over the country.

    Fans with no link to the town / city whatsoever but who support a winning club because it's easy. They're the plastic fans.
     
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    My beat mate is a swine fan. But his grandad and dad are so follows them
     
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    One of my uncles was born not 5 minutes from Oakwell and he went to Grove Street school yet he has had a Wednesday season ticket since he was 17 and he is in his mid 50's now
     
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    Similar to me living all my life in Huddersfield but supporting Barnsley through Dad and his side of the family. I jumped on the bandwagon though after beating Ipswich Town 2-0 in the third round of the FA Cup in 1990 though :D Never felt like any less of a fan for not living in Barnsley. It's a great town that I love visiting. Plus had I supported my birth town i'd have missed out on the premiership that they haven't been in, seen league two football that we've not seen, seen an FA Cup semi final and quarters that they haven't seen in my time. We've knocked them out of the league cup and beat them 7-1 too. Way better time supporting who I support.
     
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    Going one further. Isn't it weird we've all got loads of Man Utd /Liverpool supporters with absolutely no affiliation! BUT stranger more is why didn't they choose Stockport or Tranmere instead? Mmmm strange one is that?
     
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    Similar to me but my 1st game was a 3.1 defeat to wolves at home in the premiership promotion season at the good old age of 10. But am same as you barnsley is a great town love following em and love visiting the town.
     
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    Tommy Taylor.
     
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    Ah-hem!! My daughter, born and bred in Sheffield, supports Barnsley, thanks to who her MUM supports! Top work by the lady in question if you ask me......
     
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    I know lots of fans of the Liverpool and man united whose "support" is limited to watching sky and wearing the shirt.

    When my mate used to live on the south coast he saw local man u and Liverpool "fans" chasing each other around Brighton.

    They can't feel the highs and lows like us, surely?



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    Absolutely. She will be grateful to you for the rest of her life for your guidance and positive influence.
     
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    I agree completely. Many of these plastic glory fans may consider themselves supporters but I don't think they have a true emotional connection with the club, not in the same way that we have and that many other real fan's have with their clubs.
     
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    Not sure she was last night , or this morning on a School Bus full of Deedars!
     
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    My best mates a Wednesday fan because he played for them for 4 years. He's a bell end though
     
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    It's unlikely that I'll be moving back to Barnsley anytime soon, so my children will be born and raised in Leeds.

    They can support whichever team they like, but I'm not taking them anywhere other than Oakwell :)

    #TeamsLikeBarnsley
     
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